What can the little guy do?

Vartan Gregorian, an academician of many titles, two of which were a former president of Brown University and a president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, a granting foundation, once said while being interviewed by the journalist Bill Moyers that "there 'are' no little people."

Correct and absolute!

The shift that you speak of is happening even while we speak, but sluggard is it indeed, and I share your views and feelings 100%. Snippets of change 'are' occuring, though; sometimes are they short upheavals but in comparatively small regions geographically or commercial sectors of political economy. For now they may appear to occur as ad hoc events, apparently unconnected to us such that many of our common perceptions overlook the deeper, greater undertows. But as one looks more closely, however, one may connect events and disclose definite patterns and discover a portent of things to come that bodes poorly for the "big guy," but by which we, the "little guys" are affected first.

The spikes in occurrences among the wealthy, for example, are measures of an increasing indication of fear, not readily evident to the lay persons or relative to any given sector of commerce or industry that lay people depend on, but rather fear in the power brokers themselves, whose fear signals should at once prompt each of us to wink out our mental tape measures and begin making an accounting. Our indenture to the norms, to leisure -- comparative gratuities to what the poor third-world people could enjoy, however, causes many to fixate upon their immediate circumstances before first zooming out wide and seeing the great charade wefting and warping beneath the economies upheld by the one-percentile, greed-smitten jack asses in power.

The moment a mass of people 'feel' and perceive things to be amiss, as quickly do certain forces shift into action for which a vortex immediately takes hold that triggers events. Things raze, they grow volatile as a staging for the new. We see one pattern in that of the housing sector of the United States and thereto, the building sector: an entire mult-billion-dollar corporation has fallen at Wall Street and not few in these same sectors are to be brought before the courts to answer for their deceit. We observe the spike in fuel prices and thus the steep downward curve in the shipment and logistical industry and thereto again as result, the soaring consumer price indices. Among the powerful, this expresses a peacock pride yet is truly but great theater before the fall.

But the pains at first undergoing among the few, then the many do precede the inevitable sought-for aim. Rest assured, martyrs we do not need today -- such is passe, and rather quite immature, sophomoric. Such was tried and succeeded-at in the 1960's and 70's and to good avail. But no longer is this viable. The less we do en masse, the less harm we confront in our respective lives and the less we have to do to repair great damage, but rather is it the inertia from many events that prompts adjustment by its own volition, which is to say, given the inertia, the bounty and groan of imbalances will cause inevitable falls of great institutes in all cases -- sooner or later -- increasingly sooner than later, however. Simply watch, observe, act with tactical clarity, bide your patience above all -- but do do where propriety accords your doing. For feeling and perceiving can be thought active things as well: they are seeds well-planted.

The more we work upon ourselves each, the more we will unravel the congestions that en masse have added up to the critical mass that prompt us to ask and then wish to act at the outset of feeling the wrong in these others. This does not speak to passivity but rather impassivity, which is to say, herewith we put focus energy on what we can do most and carry most constructively, which takes us to ourselves first and wherein we are constrained to work with what we rate -- that which exists within our respective compasses.

This whole dynamism is a slow-going thing for the most part; but there will be nodes along the lines of actions whereupon certain radical occurrences commence, which are the open windows, the opportunities to slip in and effect change -- great change. Again, the paradigm shift is happening even while we speak -- with the current presidential campaigning occurring in the United States as testament to this.

Yet this must occur deliberatively if verily, else things would implode and wreak havoc upon vast areas of social underpinnings. I am as appalled as any and like to think I am as radical as any. But -- things take time. But peer in closely and one will see that things are happening quicker than ever. The old assumptions are falling away. In the United States, for example again, -- who would've thought we'd see a woman or scaling black man running for President; this, after some 230 years of just one ilk and pattern.

The paradigm shift is in our midst.

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Buy a bicycle and a hybrid that runs solely on biodiesel

refuse tobuy gasoline at a gas station

refuse to buy electricity for your home unless it comes from green energy

refuse to buy anything that will end up in a landfill for 10 million years

hmmm don't have time for the next 10 million things you can do.

By changing our minds first, then changing our behaviors.

The paradigm is simply a belief system. Once you understand how belief systems are structured, you can then replace them with new ones.... Ah, did I hear the revolution calling?

Our American dream has become a nightmare. .....Change the dream.

Read this book: The Secret History of the American Empire by John Perkins

Try to keep your heart open to love and beauty. Many great builders and rulers could not do this, and it's a much greater accomplishment.

I don't have the answer ,if you find it, will you let us know. We all pray for that change.